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Category: INTERVIEWS/PROFILES

Published: 03 April 2019

JAMMU:  Lawyer turned Model, Miss Sana Dua shall be the Brand Ambassador of J&K Election Department for General Elections -2019. Dua the 1st Runner up of Femina Miss India 2017 contest has also participated in Miss United Continents 2017 figuring among the top ten. The celebrity has voluntarily offered her services for educating, creating awareness and motivating the electorate of J&K for exercising their franchise to ensure greater participation in the forthcoming Lok Sabha Elections. An advocate by profession and an enthusiastic social activist, Dua would encourage and motivate the eligible youth to register themselves as voters and use their voting rights during the poll process.

Born in 1993 in Assam in a Sikh family, whose roots are in Jammu and Kashmir, Miss Dua graduated in law and practised as a Lawyer before entering the glamour world in 2015. Recipient of various awards in the glamour world, Miss Dua has actively been engaged in promoting girl child education and “Save Water” campaign in the state. Miss. Sana Dua in her video message expressed happiness to be part of this campaign and said that “despite belonging to different regions, religions and backgrounds, we all are united by our constitutional right to vote which puts all citizens of India on equal footing without any discrimination.”

Reiterating the Election Commission’s slogan “No Voter Should Be Left Behind”, she appealed the general masses, especially the young voters to celebrate “Desh ka Maha Tyohar” and exercise their right of franchise in the ensuing Lok Sabha elections. She said that the youth must ensure their greater participation in these elections to strengthen the world’s largest democracy by casting their votes.

Complimenting Ms. Dua for voluntarily associating herself with the election awareness campaign, Chief Electoral Officer, J&K, Shailendra Kumar said that her role as Election Department’s Brand Ambassador will give further boost to the electoral participation, especially the youth. He hoped that the young celebrity shall be a great source of inspiration for the young voters to ensure massive participation in the elections to further increase the voting turn out, and strengthen the democracy.